It's all bullshit as far as I'm concerned

but thats exactly the thing that leads to those 3 options

based on the public information out there this totally could be a possibility that its equipment failure or something

but if the US government has eyewitnesses, radar, thermal/IR, video and the like then they know to a high degree of accuracy whether this is the case or not

if it is equipment failure and they don't want to admit it then it's option 3

if its not equipment failure then its option 1 or 2

as far as a rare natural phenomenon goes I feel like this fits into the same kinda boat but ill admit that I didn't really consider that a serious option - regardless the US government then knows a lot about a really bizarre natural phenomenon and is doing some really weird spin with all this UFO PR stuff

It’s all smoke screens

Hard to come up with an explanation other than the three things you listed.

Logic says that at least one of the three of those has to be true

no I totally agree

I think that is the reason why it doesn't have more attention

so option 3?

for more funding?

right

like trying to be as objective as possible I feel like its really hard to find an explanation that doesn't broadly fit into one of those 3 categories

Don’t know exactly why, who knows why we get manipulated the way we do it’s always something.

yeah but "something was there" is a big jump to make to knowing what the something is, like if it was literally something defying all the laws of physics it would take a lot to prove (but yeah that is kinda the whole point why its mysterious and a bit spooky)

also maybe im not as scared (or surprised) by the idea of the military developing crazy technology as much as i should be. and ofc how it could be another government or something that adds to the secrecy. but then maybe if we knew that for sure we wouldnt have even seen these videos released at all

Yeah there really isn’t an explanation that isn’t covered by those. I honestly think option 1 is most likely.

I agree that option 3 has to be an option in order to include all possibilities, but when you think about it, like you said, why would they be completely making all this up haha

Aliens dont exist so cant be option 1

I agree w your first paragraph but I think that the military has the capability to know to a pretty high degree how legitimate this is. they have enough funding that we're considering the possibility that they have things that can defy the laws of physics - I feel like its not really a reach at all to say that if they were tracking these things for days and sending fighter jets to observe they know a lot more than just "could be aliens could be a balloon could be nothing" which seems to be the current position

option 1 doesn't even necessitate aliens - other options are equally nuts imo but its not just limited to aliens

this is really interesting

Idk why the assumption that they have more data is a sound one. If a craft can defy physics ostensibly itd definitely be resistant to any known sensor in any spectrum we're currently aware of. So I see the first option but only the first half.

thats a valid point but I think that its sound to say they would've had the technology present to gather more data in this situation and would have at least tried given that they scrambled jets to investigate

so then if there is a lack of data that in itself is a data point because that would suggest something really unusual in itself - and the US government hasn't said anything about this either

but thats a good point and honestly does present a problem w my argument if it turns out to be the case but regardless it shows the government covering this up to an extent

I only mean aliens as in sci-fi green or gray little men from another planet dont exist

I'll give you this. It's less far fetched than thinking an all powerful deity cares if you play with your butthole

I guess you could ask yourself what interest does that serve sentient life beyond our own?

If that was a UFO, What was its purpose? To get spotted like a jackass in foreign territory? Doesn’t seem very sentient to me.

Dont wanna be sapiencentric with my line of thinking but to me its just happenstance

imo our intelligence did deals w demons/lower dimension beings to get this technology and can’t tell us for obvious reasons

This is the thing that always gets me though, similar to what others are saying above me:

If aliens exist and it is their mission to stay hidden, are these ones slipping up recently? Is our technology improving in a way that we now see them?

If they exist and are hiding - why? And why are they surfacing?

Also, how has one not slipped up so bad yet to the point where they would have appeared on earth either due to a crash/accidental death etc? Are they that flawless?

underrated

And still got fked in afghanistan

Feel like yall guys dont truly understand alien technology and the chances of contact are basically none with how infinite the universe is

US military at most is 20 years ahead, maybe little more but not the type as described in op